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united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church live in atlanta. just ahead here on "cnn newsroom" -- >> this has blazed a trail of total destruction. >> it sounded like a fire went off. >> the fed is pumping the economy aimed at trying to get inflation under control. >> it's good to see progress. the let's just understand we have a long way to go. >> he had left his host family taking a pack lunch, a change of clothes, his phone. >> he was going to come back. where is he? how has he not reached out to us? >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with rosemary church. it is thursday, december 15th. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and 3 a.m. in louisiana where

the governor has declared a state of emergency after multiple tornadoes carved a pathway of destruction across the state. nearly 50 tornadoes have touched down across the south so far and parts of the southeast could still be hit hard as the storm moves east. these incredible images of a tornado caught on a highway in louisiana. you can see the flashes in the distance as power transformers are hit. state officials say at least three people are dead and several injured. tower cam footage from our affiliate wdsu showing a tornado touching down in new orleans and in nearby greckner, several homes were destroyed and there are live damaged power lines down across the city. the city's mayor calling the storm worst than hurricane ida and asking everyone to stay safe

indoors. >> this has blazed a trail of total destruction. as i said, probably over a mile the entire length of our city. >> we have a large area in the city that has damage. the tornado has touched down, skipped, touched back down, ran through a good ways. we have a lot of homes, a lot of structures that are damaged. >> and just days before christmas people will be waking up to catastrophic damage in their towns. cnn's nick valencia was able to speak to some residents and survey the damage. >> reporter: the damage here is extensive with this neighborhood in gretna, louisiana, the hardest hit in the area. emergency crews are going door to door canvassing the area looking for anyone unaccounted. as it stands now, even though there's extensive damage, everyone is accounted for and

there is no loss of life. the path the tornado took coming down the street ripping through the neighbor's yards. they told me while they were expecting severe weather, they had no idea they were going to take a direct hit. it lasted 10 and 15 seconds and it was able to cause all of this damage. zblr it was tremendous. the degree and, you know, just -- >> that's what you saw? >> yeah. >> she's all right? >> yeah. >> i thought it was an explosion and then my mama told me to get down. >> reporter: what did you do? did you get down? did you listen to your mom? >> reporter: it wasn't lost on this little boy his home was damaged. he hoped santa could find him. crews will be out here assessing the damage and have more of an indication of what they're

dealing with. back to you. >> thanks for that report. and a new tornado watch is in place for alabama, georgia and florida. cnn meteorologist britley ritz is jioining us. what are you seeing? >> we'll add this to the list. 26 wind damage reports, of hail reports, 49 tornado reports. holding on to that threat once again this morning as well as the afternoon moving into the southern parts of florida. and right on up into the carolinas. watching this line this morning, there's the tornado watch highlighted in red. the greater threat especially along the florida panhandle as the storms roll up onto the coast line so they're isolated, quick spinups starting as water spouts making their way on to shore making tornadoes at that point. where we once had a tornado

warning, the whole line will be off of shorelines by 8, 9:00 central time later today but we're still holding on to that threat early on. throughout the morning to the afternoon in charleston and tampa, where we're highlighted in yellow, that's a slight risk of tornadoes. more of a damaging wind and hail threat. down into mobile, highlighting in yellow, this is the excessive rainfall risk. we're already saturated. adding another one to two inches. lake charles, louisiana, on wednesday picked up a daily record for rainfall. nearly 2 1/2 inches. on the other side of the storm where it's significantly colder, all the way through new england and back into the atlantic. where you're seeing the darker blues, we can pick up 1/4 to half an inch of ice. that's crippling. eastern west virginia and

northern virginia where we can wind up with widespread power outages and trees down. travel is going to be next to impossible. for those of us in the northern parts of the appalachians in new england, we could pick up nearly two feet of snow in the next few days. rosemary? >> unbelievable. meteorologist britley ritz. joining me on the phone is cynthia shang, president of jefferson parish in louisiana. thank you so much for being with us at this particularly challenging time. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> i did want to ask if you've had an opportunity to assess the full damage in your parish? how bad is this? >> yes. i've been out here for several hours. i wasn't able to see everything but most of the areas, i've seen most of everything. i've concentrated our time in a 10 by 5 block area which got most of the damage. spent most of my evening in that

area. we lost light quickly. the tornado hit at about 4 p.m. we had about 1 1/2 hours of light left so we were trying to get as much done as we could while there was still daylight. our team still continued to assess in the dark. we brought out mobile lights. we're going to have the fuel -- we're going to keep the fuels all night. we're currently going through a second assessment right now in that neighborhood. >> as you've been speaking with us, we've been looking at some of those images. it is just extraordinary how much damage there is out there. of course, we do know that the tornado touched down not once but multiple times in your parish. have you been able to make sure no one's trapped in their homes or missing at this time? is everyone accounted for? >> we believe that everyone is accounted for. if you look at the damage, i don't know how we have been so fortunate tonight to have no fatalities. as the hours went by i was hoping, you know, it would remain the same. there was no missing people

reported. you know, obviously neighbors check on neighbors immediately so some neighbors were rescuing people, our firefighters and sheriff's office did some other rescues, but we can say we really had no serious injury either. in one of the -- one of the houses that was really damaged the neighbors knew that the lady was stuck inside and they got her out quickly. if she was outside the house they don't know how she would have survived it but thankfully she did. she got in the right place at the right time. i do have to say thanks to our local media and our state pushing out text alerts. when i talked to many of the families and i asked them how did they know it was coming, they said we were watching it on tv and they were saying our neighborhood and they were getting text alerts telling them to take cover immediately. if it wasn't for the teblg nothing and them being able to run in and get in the right spot in their house at just the right time, i think we would have had much more loss of life. so thank goodness for that.

>> yeah. i mean, that is just critical, isn't it? of course, it is nighttime right now so what are you able to achieve in terms of search and rescue efforts? and of course being mindful at the same time of the dangers out there with exposed power lines and other problems? >> there is tremendous amounts of leaning polls, broken polls, exposed wires. we have to be very careful going in and you needed that flashlight. we are trying to light up the area bringing in more lights but things like, you know, the gas leaks, that has been handled. even as our electricity gets back, we have a lot of people out of electricity but there are certain areas because of the exposed wires we don't want to light up yet. these people, we're not in tornado country. this is new to us. we had a tornado hit last year, but we're normally in hurricane territory. so these kind of dangers are very, very new to us.

we used to always say, thank goodness we don't live where a tornado is because with hurricanes we do have a notice. unfortunately last year and this year we're now seeing a different kind of weather pattern hit us so i guess we're going to have to get, you know, more properly trained on how to prepare very quickly for a tornado. >> unfortunately that is a very familiar story these days. of course, with the holidays approaching, how long do you expect it will take to clean up and get back to some sense of normalcy in your parish and the surrounding area? >> that was very difficult to watch because i saw christmas trees out on the lawn. knowing christmas is around the corner and all kind of religious holidays. this is a time about family, slowing down and being grateful. it was really hard to see these families, you know, their lives uprooted like this. we're very grateful that the cries that i was hearing were

cries about possession and the shock of it all, but not the kind of cries that you have when you lose a loved one. we're really grateful about that. throughout our state we had other deaths but fortunately for us in jefferson parish, we k didn't have any. >> thank goodness. cynthia sheng, president much tmuch jefferson parish juror secrets leaked to the press, death threats, that's just some of what's covered in the final three episodes of the harry and meghan documentary series on netflix. the record-breaking series examines their life after marriage and what led the couple to leave their senior roles in the royal family. >> you just see it play out, like a story about someone in the family would pop up for a minute.

you'd go, got to make that pgo away. there was real estate and something has to be filled until there about someone royal. >> and for more, i'm joined by cnn royal historian kate williams and cnn royal correspondent max foster joining us from london. great to see you both. max, let's start with you. you have had a chance to view some of the new episode that dropped last hour with some bombshells expected. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, the -- a lot of it is about how they sort of moved out of the royal family and they talk a bit, for example, about a tour they did in australia, which went incredibly well. people will remember it. they had this huge reception and william -- harry and meghan handled it incredibly well. they were on the front pages and it was on the front pages. it was all true. they are very natural about

those walk abouts. they describe how jealousy set in. it's difficult when you have meghan and harry, who are meant to be supporting members of the senior royals, being particularly good at something compared with people who were meant to be born into it and you see pictures of prince charles as he was at the time, king charles now. so a sense of how they were upstaging effectively other members of the family, or that's how it was seen. this be is something that diana also accused the palace of as well. and charles being jealous of diana back in the day. and she was actually appearing in this documentary talking about a similar experience that she had in australia. so we're getting some fleshing out, if you lake, some broad accusations that the couple have made against the family. they said that initially they found it very difficult to deal with and eventually they got quite angry about it but this is a clip that meagan -- where

meghan speaks about her private secretary sam cohen who worked for the queen for many years, describing the situation when meghan came into the family. >> my private secretary, worked for the queen for 20 years. what she said to me was, it's like this fish swimming perfectly and one day this little organism comes in, foreign organism and the entire thing goes -- >> pretty powerful sound there. she says that -- sam said, but it will get better. the point that they're making is it didn't get better, which is why they left. >> just extraordinary. kate, in the latest trailer harry talks about people lying to protect his brother, prince

william. the same breem never willing to tell the truth to protect harry and meghan. how damaging could words like that prove to be for the royal family? >> reporter: yes, rosemary. the first three episodes are about harry and meghan's relationship with the press. these are going to the palace, they leaked stories, the royals were part of a war, that's the word she uses, war wagging against them and the context saying they were prepared to lie about my brother to protect me. that's very much about the meagan, harry and meghan's exit in episode 5 in which he says they exited the royal family and they said william hadn't be booted them out of the royal family and his name was assigned to that and he said they lied to protect my brother over the

bull bul bullying allegations and suggested that the palace actually might have been involved in planting stories against them. they're very serious allegations and i think they are damaging. >> kate, what impact will be this documentary series likely have on harry's relationship with his brother, prince william, and his father, king charles, going forward? is it really the end of those relationships? it's going to be hard to rebuild them surely after this. the. >> reporter: yes, i think so. obviously harry already felt that there was an end to the relationship. he felt there was an end to the relationship when he was virtually compelled to leave the royal family because his wife wasn't being protected, because he wasn't being protected. i think he feels the relationship is over and he's out there speaking the truth about what happened. really, king charles' rein is very young, just on his feet. simply the fact is i think it

will affect his reputation, particularly among the young, people of color, and people across the commonwealth. a woman of color maris into the royal family and this is what happens. >> record viewing of this certainly, the first part. of course, it does have its critics as well. max foster and kate williams, great to have you both with us. appreciate it. a popular figure from daytime television has passed away. steven boss, better known as d.j. twitch, was a regular on "the ellen degeneres show" since 2014. the los angeles county medical examiner said he died by suicide. here he is on the ellen show earlier this year. hn >> i came here to dance one time, you know what i mean?

and i'm married, had more kids and when i was a real dj i always felt at home, you know what i'm saying? >> so devastating. and degeneres issued a statement saying she is heart broken over boss's patching. she said twitch was pure love and light. he was my family and i loved him with all my heart. still to come, why authorities at the u.s./mexico border are worried as a trump era border policy is set to expire next week. also ahead, raising interest rates to lower inflation. what the u.s. federal reserve's latest move will mean for home buyers. plus -- >> screams of joy over the big win on wednesday. they're going to the world cup final.

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♪ ♪ ♪ oh, how good it must feel to surge into the world cup final. the french national team booked their ticket after defeating morocco in the semi-final 2-0. the reining champions avoided becoming the latest european giant to be brought down by the atlas lions during their storybook run. the french footballers now have a few days to rest up and get ready for argentine into and the mighty lionel messi. the super powers and last team standing will meet in the

championship on sunday. let's bring in cnn's amanda davies to join us live from doha. all very exciting, isn't it? france and argentina going head to head in the final. what are the expectations here? >> reporter: yeah, rosemary, it really is a final worthy of the world cup decider. there's no doubt that france, the team and population have certainly been enjoying their moment. the pictures you're seeing, in the dressing room, at the stadium and after the game, that return to the hotel which just seems to be getting bigger and better. the they deservedly booked their place in the final with victory over morocco defying the largely moroccan support inside the stadium to stay on course to become the first defending champions to win back-to-back titles in 60 years. and this is what -- one of the stories from last night, what

they had to say after the game. >> translator: really, it's incredible. to play in back-to-back world cup finals is an incredible moment. we're going to give it our best shot and work really hard. it was difficult but now we are in the final. >> translator: we're feeling emotion and pride. obviously today's match was very important. the last month we've been together as a squad it's never simple, but there is happiness. we hope the players will be rewarded. we will seek another title on sunday. it's marvelous. >> reporter: yeah, did didier deschamps rightly telling his side to enjoy every moment. rightly so. the idea of lining up against argentina in sunday's final, it's a decider being billed as france against argentina. mbappe up against lionel messi

giving the qatari ownership where the two players both play their domestic football. there's also some revenge to be had from the argentinian perspective. whilst both of these teams have two world cup titles to their name, we know argentina looking for a first with lionel messi at the helm as their captain but, of course, it was france who knocked argentina out of the world cup four years ago in russia. it was very much a young 19-year-old mbappe who had the better of that one. >> all right. we'll see what happens there. of course, morocco thrilled fans at home and across the globe with how far they got in this world cup. what's being said about all they've achieved so far. >> yeah. there was lots of tears, understandably, after full time last night. i think on the whole they were tears of pride rather than sadness given what their team has achieved over the last

month, not only for football in morocco but across africa and the arab world. the first african nation to reach a semi-final of a footballing world cup. this was a side that at the start of this tournament hadn't won a world cup match since 1998. they were 200 to 1 outsiders and here they are now having beaten three of the world's top 10 in belgium, spain, and portugal and rightly have won their fans across the world with how they've acted on the pitch and off it. the those incredible scenes dancing with their mothers in celebration. we had killian mbappe trying to comfort his teammate hakim. a lot of people don't like to play in the third place playoff. that takes place saturday.

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welcome back, everyone. i'm rosemary church. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top story this hour. some 58 reports of tornadoes across the u.s. south and after severe weather moves east, a new tornado watch is in place for alabama,s georgia, and florida. at least three people are dead and multiple injuries after several tornadoes tore across louisiana. officials are telling residents in hard-hit areas to stay indoors until crews can clean up the damage. we're learning more about the challenges faced by the tubing and duchess of sussex while deciding to give up their senior royal duties. it's all part of the record-breaking netflix documentary which premiered its final three episodes earlier

today. cnn's anna stewart joins me now live from london. good morning to you again, anna. you've had more time now to view the three new episodes that dropped just last hour. what are the headlines? >> reporter: right. so i think last hour i just sort of started with the ones released today. it starts with a positive note looking back at the wedding day, excitement, buildup and the press and the wonderful moments where meghan took her engagement to the queen and she said how it was. she spoke to the queen very much as her husband's grandmother. she talks about how they had a good old laugh. unfortunately then we have a change in the narrative. they're taking the commonwealth tour in australia as the turning point. they say there was jealousy within the institution and how much media attention meghan and

heary were getting. when someone is marrying in, they should be a supporting act and stealing the limelight and doing a job better than the person who was born to do it, that upset people. that shifted the balance. they identified this really as the turning point. there's a moment where harry and meghan were staying at buckingham palace for the evening where all of the royal family were at and when they came out to breakfast they saw on the front page of the telegraph, it was all about meghan. meghan said, it's not my fault. i know, my mum felt the same way. there are many comparisons, not for the first time of course, with meghan and princess diana, harry's mother. and then it comes to a difficult part in the episode to watch. the heartbreaking fact that meghan said she felt suicidal at one point, saying all of this will stop if i'm not here. that's the scariest thing about it. she said it was such clear thinking.

we hear from meghan's mother relaying how she found out from meghan, hearing that news, how difficult that must have been for her as a mother. she worked through her tears and said, i can't protect her. harry can't protect her. you can see that is a really devastating moment, rosemary. still watching. more bombshells to come. >> anna stewart joining us live from london. many thanks. appreciate it. well, later today the u.s. senate could vote on a bill that would fund the government for another week. that's after the house passed a so-called stop-gap measure to avert a government shutdown on friday. this bill, which is just a quick fix, was mostly pushed through by the democrats with just nine republicans crossing party lines. it gives negotiators more time to hammer out a broader, fiull

year deal with more spending levels. most of the disagreements are over how much money should be spent on non-defense domestic priorities. u.s. financial markets are looking to rebound from a disappointing performance on wednesday. right now the futures look a little bleak, all in negative territory there. stocks fell after the u.s. federal reserve announced a half point interest rate hike. the dow closed down .4 of a percent. the nasdaq fell 3/4 of a percent. more now on the fed decision from cnn's matt egan. >> reporter: rosemary, the fed is still pumping tough medicine into the economy trying to get inflation back into control. it's lowering the dosage of that medicine a bit. after four straight rate hikes of 75 basis points, the fed is now raising interest rates by 50 basis points. that is an acknowledgment that inflation is cooling off, that

the fed's medicine is working. but the fed is making clear that their job is not nearly done here yet. in the fed's statement they said that inflation remains, quote, elevated. during the press conference jerome powell said it's going to take substantially more evidence to gain confidence that it is on a sustained downward trend. no evidence from the fed. 7% inflation is of course better than 9% inflation earlier this year, but it's still 7% inflation. that's still triple the fed's target. fed officials are pencilling in even more rate hikes next year. they see their fed target range going up by 75 basis points next year. that means even higher borrowing costs. mortgage rates, don't forget, recently hit 20-year highs. credit card rates are at record highs. they could go even higher next year. this also means that the fed is going to be putting even

downward pressure on this economy slowing it down trying to get inflation under control. on that front the fed darkened its economic projections for next year. they see near zero gdp growth for 2023. they bumped up the inflation forecast and they see unemployment going from a very low level from 3.7% today to 4.6% next year. now that's not high overall but it does still translate to a loss of roughly 1.6 million jobs. another reminder, i think, of the real pain here caused by not just high inflation but the war on high inflation from the federal reserve. rosemary, the hope remains that inflation is going to cool off enough in the coming months to allow the fed to stop raising interest rates before it causes a recession. the united states is trying to crack down on tiktok. the senate passed a bill

wednesday to keep the app off federally owned devices. it must be approved by the house. it comes after a number of states passed similar bans on state-owned devices. some fear the app could relay data to the chinese government. tiktok says those concerns are fueled by misinformation and it's happy to meet with lawmakers. well, the u.s. government is suing arizona for using shipping containers as a temporary wall along the border with mexico. the controversial plan was put in place by arizona's republican governor and it was done without official permits or authorization. the lawsuit says the federal government has been battling with the state ever since to get the containers removed. meantime, u.s. border officials are gearing up for an influx of migrants after title 42, a trump era border policy put in place during the pandemic ends next week. authorities are concerned the surge could overwhelm the surges

from cities like el paso, texas. they are expected to receive $6 million of fema funds to address the issue. with more than 2,000 migrants arriving daily, that may not be enough. cnn's ed lavandera is there. >> reporter: it's a frigid el paso night and john-martin is coordinating an outreach team trying to figure out where newly arrived migrants have been released on the city's downtown streets. >> they're working with the new arrivals that came in just within the past hour. >> reporter: so there's a lot of confusion now? >> to a great extent i'll get myself in trouble. i think confusion is an understatement. >> reporter: he helps run a homeless shelter. this family welcome center can fit about 80 people, but in recent days they've taken in as many as 125 per night. >> the concern that we have is at some point you just simply run out of physical space and we don't want to be in a position

to say no, but i think the reality is very close. >> reporter: recent days the el paso area has seen a major wave of migrants crossing in to the united states. the average number of migrants arriving in el paso is 2500 a day. because of that, many people here, city leaders in el paso are concerned about what this could look like if title 42 is lifted next week. >> reporter: public health policy known as title 42 which was used during the pandemic to remove some 2.5 million migrants from the u.s. is set to end next week. for many migrants, the talk of title 42 isn't on their minds. they left nicaragua six weeks ago with their 9-year-old girl. >> he said they came, they were unaware of title 42. they really just want to come here to work for a couple of years and go back home to nicaragua. >> family is headed to georgia

to await immigration court proceedings but el paso leaders say the humanitarian safety net that has long existed is stretched too thin already. >> we need people to step up. we need to stop pointing fingers. we need to work together. we need to collaborate and we need to make sure we keep folks passing through our neighborhood safe and keeping our communities safe as well. >> reporter: these are the scenes in downtown el paso that officials are beening much more alarmed about. these are migrants that are processed through border patrol. they have paperwork to be able to enter the country and move, but really they have nowhere to go right now as they're either a wade wait-- awaiting a bus ride of town or waiting for family members. this is the going concern. night fall is coming. it will be another frigid night. these people will be here on the streets sleeping unless they are able to get on a bus out of town. this is the concern. this is what many people are

very concerned about and are worried that this is a sight and a scene that will only continue to worsen in the days to come. ed lavandera, cnn, el paso. questions are growing about what happened to a u.s. college student missing in france. next cnn goes to the city where kenny deland jr. was studying. ay to get prebiotic, plant-based d fiber. with the same amount of fiber as 2 cups of broccccoli. metamucil gummies the eaeasy way to get your daily fiber. when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis persists... put it in check with rinvoq, when uc t unpredictable,... put i got rapid symptomnvoq, relief with rinvoq. check. when uc held me back... i golasting, steroid-free remission with rinvoq. check. and when uc got the upper hand... rinvoq helped visibly repair the colon lining. check. rapid symptom relief. lasting, steroid-free remission. and a chance to visibly repair the colon lining.

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family members are increasingly worried about the fate of a u.s. college student missing in france. his parents spoke earlier with cnn's anderson cooper. >> i talked to the fbi today and i asked the fbi agent, you know, is there -- do you feel like there's any progress? what's the status? and i don't get anywhere. it just feels like the wind has gone out of the sail as far as

what's being done to find my son. you know, the more time that goes by, the more worried we become. >> kenny deland jr. has been missing for more than two weeks. his father is disputing a french prosecutor's claim that deland had trouble making friends and adjusting to his study abroad program and likely left on his own. cnn's melissa bell spoke exclusively with the mother of the host family caring for deland. >> reporter: social media posts give little away, just images of a young american enjoying his exchange program in france, but kenny deland jr. vanished 15 days ago without a trace. after leaving the home of the host mother he was staying with she explains that she's only spoken once to kenny's mother, never to his father, but a graes to speak exclusively to cnn

without the camera. what the host mother told us is the exchange student she had at home, kenny seemed to have the most difficulty settling down. she had been inundating him with messages to which he hasn't responded. she added she had been reassured with the sighting of him an hour from here in the sports shop because it confirmed the possibility and her hope that he had gone and cut off communications voluntarily. it was taken on december 3rd. kenny deland spent over $8 before vanishing all together from his family leaving only behind facebook pictures of his life in france from paris to the university. the last time he turned up for lessons at the university he was studying at, by november 20th. he left his host family that

morning taking a pack lunch, a change of clothes, his wallet and his phone. kenny deland hasn't been heard from since. we show kenny's picture around campus and hope someone might recognize them. when we find his friends they prefer not to talk on camera. we care about him and we want him to come back safely. statements that contradict what french authorities have said, that kenny struggled to make friends. >> what i'm telling you is he makes friends and he's easy to talk to like me. if you don't know my son, then it's tough for you to make some statement, some bold statement. >> one of the things kenny's friends told us is he may have been stressed about the upcoming exams. is that something you recognize. >> he's in a foreign country. he's a pretty upbeat kid, you know what i mean? so it's possible, sure. he was anxious.

he wanted to do good. he wanted to prove that he could get good grades even on the trip of a lime time. >> reporter: kenny chronicled his trip to france in august. his father still hopes he'll be able to pick him up as planned on saturday. melissa bell, cnn. much more ahead here on "cnn newsroom." do stay with us.

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